Who Was Alive
Louise Michel
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Louise Michel

French writer and anarchist

Born 29 May 1830 · died 9 January 1905, aged 74
Also known as Clémence-Louise Michel, Clemence-Louise Michel

Who was alive at the same time as Louise Michel?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  9. Louise Michel, 1830 – 1905
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Louise Michel was born, Karl Marx was 12, Abraham Lincoln was 21, Leo Tolstoy was 1, Charles Darwin was 21 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 80.

When Louise Michel died, Adolf Hitler was 15, Albert Einstein was 25, Vladimir Lenin was 34, Mahatma Gandhi was 35 and Leo Tolstoy was 76.

Born during Louise Michel’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 6 years after Louise Michel died, Nelson Mandela was born about 13 years after Louise Michel died, Napoleon died about 9 years before Louise Michel was born and Ludwig van Beethoven died about 3 years before Louise Michel was born.

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Where Louise Michel’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,512 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Louise Michel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1868.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  32. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  45. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  46. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  54. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  55. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  56. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  57. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  58. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  59. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  60. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  61. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  62. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  63. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  64. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  65. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  66. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  67. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  68. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  69. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  70. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  71. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  72. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  73. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  74. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  75. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  76. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  77. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  78. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  79. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  80. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  81. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  82. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  83. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  84. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  85. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  86. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  87. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  88. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  89. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  90. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  91. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  92. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  93. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  94. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  95. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  96. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  97. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  98. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  99. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  100. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  101. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  102. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  103. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  104. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  105. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  106. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  107. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  108. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  109. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  110. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  111. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  112. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  113. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  114. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  115. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  116. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  117. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  118. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  119. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  120. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  121. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  122. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  123. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  124. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  125. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  126. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  127. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  128. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  129. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  130. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  131. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  132. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  133. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  134. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  135. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  136. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  137. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  138. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  139. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  140. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  141. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  142. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  143. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  144. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  145. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  146. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  147. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  148. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  149. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  150. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886